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Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains

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losses loom larger than gains

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman · The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

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Author

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman

Source

The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

Chapter / location

Science 211, 1981, page 456

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cognitive-biases · decision-making · quote

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From The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice, Science 211, 1981, page 456.

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English translation; consult the named source edition for the original wording.

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“losses loom larger than gains”

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In this Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains context, amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman wrote this formulation in the named scholarly work. Applied specifically to Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, authorship follows the publication record in place of later quote collections.

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For Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, the source is The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice, Science 211, 1981, page 456. On the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains record, the excerpt is deliberately short and its capitalization follows the located text.

Context

In this Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains context, “losses loom larger than gains” — Tversky & Kahneman, Science 1981, p. Applied specifically to Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, 456. For Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, in context, the wording identifies a precise research claim, not a slogan that all intuitive judgment is defective. On the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains record, the surrounding argument states the focal problem, comparison, and evidentiary limit.

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In this Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains context, the passage matters because it compresses “losses loom larger than gains” — Tversky & Kahneman, Science 1981, p. Applied specifically to Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, 456. For Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, its responsible interpretation keeps the experimental or theoretical boundary visible and does not diagnose an individual from an isolated choice.

On the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains record, the quotation connects to calibrated confidence, base-rate reasoning, disconfirming evidence, and decision-process review. In this Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains context, those links explain the idea in place of merely collecting adjacent names.

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The source record audit for Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains begins with a narrow claim: “losses loom larger than gains” — tversky & kahneman, science 1981, p. For Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, 456. On the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains record, the first cited record, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk, is used for that owned proposition. In this Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains context, the second source supplies a comparison or field-level boundary. Applied specifically to Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains, neither source is treated as authority for facts it does not report.

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  • 01
    Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under RiskBy Daniel Kahneman and Amos TverskyEconometrica 47(2), 263–291 (1979); source 1 supports the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains evidence auditConsult source
  • 02
    Decision Making: Evidence Based PracticeBy NCBI BookshelfDecision-making guide, 2024; source 2 supports the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains evidence auditConsult source
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    Crossref Scholarly MetadataBy CrossrefAuthoritative source record; source 3 supports the Kahneman and Tversky on Losses and Gains evidence auditConsult source

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